Hey Morana! You did a great job there! :) I love opera, but I can hardly understand the lyrics when I hear it (and I'm Italian!!), so, really, kudos to you!! About the "alla fin vi posero" part I think he actually says "alla fin riposerò". So yeah, your assumption is correct, even though you were not sure about it. :) Where you wrote "E pensate si a fugire", it seems he says "E pensateci a fuggire". In the "della? ... sorci indegni," part, I *think* he says "dell'aremo sorci indegni". That word doesn't exist in Italian, but that's the only one I came up with, comparing this text with the German one. It looks like an Italian version of "harem"...does it make sense to you? The missing sentence is "nella rete voi cadrete".

La bicicletta e la pioggia.

In questo momento, fuori sta piovendo. Normalmente mi piace la pioggia, ma oggi mia cugina ed io volevamo andare a fare un giro in bicicletta. Fiduciosamente la pioggia fermerà Speriamo che smetterà e possiamo così potremo andare!

 

Hi Johnny, well done! Your text was mostly correct but I provided a more common way of saying it in Italian.

Hi Ximsy, here's my version: I almost did all the questions. Ho fatto quasi tutte le domande How to make these natural? Come rendere queste (frasi?) in modo naturale? While coming down, please bring the screw driver along. Quando scendi, porta il cacciavite, per favore Should I help him? Dovrei aiutarlo? Shouldn’t I be studying right now? Non dovrei studiare adesso? (or: Non dovrei essere sui libri in questo momento?) Shouldn’t we be working right now? Non dovremmo essere al lavoro in questo momento? (I had to think about the last two questions: while in English you use the verb to express the action you should be doing, in Italian this wouldn't sound well -and I think it would be wrong, actually-. In my opinion, the idea is better expressed if you use the noun, like "al lavoro", instead of the verb like in "Non dovrei studiare adesso?") What did you say about the second option? Cos'hai detto riguardo alla seconda opzione? I am qualified for this job. Sono qualificato per questo lavoro. She is not qualified for being a teacher due to her misbehaviour towards students. Non è qualificata per fare l'insegnante, a causa del suo pessimo comportamento nei confronti degli studenti I will make sure that this will never happen again. Farò in modo che questo non accada più

Ciao Eleonora, 1. "ogni buona automobile dovrebbe durare quanto un buon orologio." means "every good car should last as long as a good watch/clock" 2. That's right, "quest'ultima" refers to "automobile elettrica" 3. I think this text would be more more understandable like this: "Poco dopo l’Esposizione Universale di Londra del 1851, l’Inghilterra vittoriana avrebbe riconosciuto la necessità di accendere un dibattito sulla riforma delle arti applicate, che avrebbe imboccato due strade: quella del rifiuto della macchina, avanzata da Ruskin e Morris, che si schierava a favore dell’artigianato, e quella del consenso verso la macchina, avanzata da Henry Cole" In brief, this means that the debate on the reform of applied arts could have taken two ways: one was refusing the machinery (theorized by Ruskin and Morris, who was for craftmanship), while the other was approving the use of machinery. Hope this helps clarifying things up!

Hey Frances, I actually think it's the other way round of what you read (btw, where did you read it?): direct pronouns are used where there's no "to" in English, because "to" often corresponds in Italian to the preposition "a". In the sentence you wrote ("le parliamo") "le" stands as an indirect pronoun ("parliamo a lei". It would be "la" otherwise, like in "Paolo la vede" -Paolo sees her-, where you use the direct pronoun). So it makes sense that you use the indirect pronoun in a sentence with "ai/a". Anyway, quite a lot of time has passed after I studied this at school, so I'd wait for more comments from the Italki community! :)

Perchè il musicista non si rivolge ad una coppia specifica di sposi, cioè a due persone precise che si stanno per sposare, bensì in generale a coppie di sposi. Per questo non c'è l'articolo determinativo. La tua osservazione comunque è giusta e secondo me non sarebbe scorretto usare "agli" o " a quegli"

Now that I think of it, I've always said "il mio bisnonno" (with the article) and "mio nonno" (without the article). So yes, "Lui è tornato in Sicilia e si è sposato con la mia bisnonna." is correct! :)

That means: "No one is asking you that" (i.e., to do that) as an answer to what the colonel asked Martin ("How can you ask me to do such a thing"?"). So: Nessuno (no one) gliela (gli = to you, in the courtesy form, + la = that, referred to the thing the colonel is supposed to do) chiede (asks)